Submitted by Melody Wiinamaki, B-W High School
BALDWIN-WOODVILLE, WI – The Baldwin American Legion Auxiliary, Post 240, is sponsoring two junior girls to attend this year’s conference, Kathryn Borchardt and Megen Werner. Bethany Nilssen is being sponsored by Woodville American Legion Auxiliary, Post 301. These three students were chosen to represent Baldwin-Woodville High School at Wisconsin American Legion Auxiliary Badger Girls State at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh on June 15-20th, 2025.
American Legion Auxiliary Badger Girls State is a conference that focuses on government and leadership. It is designed to educate delegates on the function of government. Each citizen has been selected by her school and the local Auxiliary Unit. The entire delegation will become a fifty-first state and will function according to the laws of the State of Wisconsin.
Each day will focus on the various aspects of state government. Citizens “learn by doing” as they function on city, county, and state levels by electing officials in the manner prescribed by regular election procedures and conducting business on those levels. Every girl is encouraged to participate in some level of the governmental process. A huge thank you goes out to the local American Legion Auxiliary of Baldwin and Woodville for sponsoring our outstanding students! Congratulations to Kathryn, Megen, and Bethany!
The Baldwin American Legion and the Woodville American Legion are sponsoring three juniors to be delegates for Badger Boys State this June 8-14, at UW-Eau Claire. It is a week-long journey through a great many things that make us who we are: leaders, friends, students, athletes, and most of all, citizens of our respective cities, towns, and our great state. The journey can be described as the most challenging and most rewarding (and fun) experience by those who have already participated in the program.
This program is designed to teach boys that the American form of government is stronger and more vital in today’s world of struggle than ever before. It teaches that the American people have no more precious possession than that great document, the Constitution, which at once safeguards and transmits to posterity those principles of the great American heritage — justice, freedom, and democracy under God.
Approximately 900 boys from every part of Wisconsin will come to Badger Boys State this year. When appointed as county supervisors, they will frame, present, and pass ordinances and laws; police and sheriffs will enforce them. As attorneys, they will prosecute or defend. As judges, they will hear cases in their courts. Through this program, these future leaders will learn to develop a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation.
Thanks to Woodville American Legion Post 301 and Baldwin American Legion Post 240 for sponsoring this event! Congratulations to Michiah George, Rhett Carlson, and Shane Momchilovich!
